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Hilton Als on the Origins of His Name

Writer Hilton Als on how he got his name, from ‘White Girls’

“The minute I was born I was not just myself, but the memory of someone else,” reads Hilton Als from his essay collection White Girls, published in 2014 by McSweeney’s and reprinted in 2019 by Penguin Books, in this video in which he tells the story of how he got his name.

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